gt8963a@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD) (04/16/91)
I need a simple, easy-to-use programmer's editor for sco xenix.
Low price is a necessity. I hear EMACS is excellent but expensive.
Anything public domain or shareware? Thank you.
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Internet: gt8963a@prism.gatech.edurobertsr@cs.unca.edu (Ralph Roberts) (04/16/91)
In article <26391@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8963a@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD) writes: >I need a simple, easy-to-use programmer's editor for sco xenix. >Low price is a necessity. I hear EMACS is excellent but expensive. > >Anything public domain or shareware? Thank you. There are several excellent Emacs which are free. On Xenix I recommend either MicroEmacs (now in version 3.10) or, if you want the ultimate, GNU Emacs. Sources for both are around in a wide number of places. Freemacs, the closest possible emulation of GNU Emacs in the DOS *shudder* world, also works fine under VPIX. GNU Emacs works very well on my Xenix 2.3.3 system, so I see no reason to go for a "simple" editor when you can have it all ;-). Oh, and as to commercial implementations of Emacs, both Epsilon (Ligaru) and Unipress offer versions for Xenix that are not all that expensive when compared to most software in the Unix world. Hope that helped.... My summation is go to the trouble of finding and compiling GNU Emacs, it's well worth the effort. --Ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Roberts author@cs.unca.edu | The Desktop Guide to Emacs ___ P.O. Box 8549 | Compute!'s Computer Viruses (o_o)_/ Asheville, NC 28814 | Compute!'s Computer Security
jallen@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Joseph Allen) (04/17/91)
In article <26391@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8963a@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD) writes: >I need a simple, easy-to-use programmer's editor for sco xenix. >Low price is a necessity. I hear EMACS is excellent but expensive. >Anything public domain or shareware? Thank you. If you don't need macros you can have the screen editor I wrote (it's PD). Here's the on-line help text from it to give you an idea of what it's like: GOTO DELETE MISC BLOCK FIND QUOTE WINDOW ^B left ^F right ^D single ^T mode ^KB mark ^KF text ^_ Ctrl ^KO split ^Z word ^X word ^W word -> ^R retype ^KK end ^L next ^\ bit-7 ^KI zoom ^A edge ^E edge ^O word <- ^KA center ^KC copy ^KL line FILE ^KP up ^P up ^N down ^J line -> ^KJ format ^KM move EXIT ^KE edit ^KN down ^U page ^V page ^Y line <-> ^KZ shell ^KW save ^KX save ^KD save ^KG grow ^KU top ^KV bottem ^G insert ^KY kill ^C abort ^KR read ^KT shrnk The key-sequences are completely configurable but the terminal must be vt100/ansi-ish (the editor will use scrolling regions on vt100s and does have interruptable optimal screen update). (You don't have to use all the control characters as shown in the help text- the normal arrow keys/pgup/pgdn etc. work (and are configurable)). The editor has: multiple windows, auto-indent mode, word-wrap mode, paragraph reformat function, search & replace, highlighted blocks, help-text which can stay on the screen, overtype/insert-modes, picture-mode (cursor makes space past end of lines). The editor can be programmed to start in any mode depending on the file extension. The editor is tiny (only 80K). There are no line-length limits, but the files being edited must fit in virtual memory. Binary files can be edited. The margins for word-wrap and paragraph reformat are fixed (I only use these features for news :-) Style: When you move the cursor between lines, the cursor always stays in the same column (if it's past the end of the line and you type, the cursor either jumpes to end real end of line or creates space depending on the mode setting). Page-up/Page-down move 1/2 a window at a time and do not move the cursor on the screen unless the top or bottem of the file is reached. To type text in, you just type it (as opposed to insert mode in 'vi'). Tabs work. Control characters are underlined, characters with the 7th bit set are in inverse. The current line-number/column number are not displayed but the file name is for each window. Speed: On the console, page-up/page-downs are instantaneos on machines faster than 20Mhz. I'll mail the source (or compiled if you wish) to you if you want it. If there's enough interest I'll post it. (versions available for BSD & HP-UX too). -- #define h 23 /* Height */ /* jallen@ic.sunysb.edu (129.49.12.74) */ #define w 79 /* Width */ /* Amazing */ int i,r,b[]={-w,w,1,-1},d,a[w*h];m(p){a[p]=2;while(d=(p>2*w?!a[p-w-w]?1:0:0)|( p<w*(h-2)?!a[p+w+w]?2:0:0)|(p%w!=w-2?!a[p+2]?4:0:0)|(p%w!=1?!a[p-2]?8:0:0)){do i=3&(r=(r*57+1))/d;while(!(d&(1<<i)));a[p+b[i]]=2;m(p+2*b[i]);}}main(){r=time( 0L);m(w+1);for(i=0;i%w?0:printf("\n"),i!=w*h;i++)printf("#\0 "+a[i]);}
lawrence@concour.cs.concordia.ca (Lawrence A. Hegarty) (04/19/91)
In article <26391@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8963a@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD) writes: >I need a simple, easy-to-use programmer's editor for sco xenix. >Low price is a necessity. I hear EMACS is excellent but expensive. > ^^^^^^^^^ >Anything public domain or shareware? Thank you. Emacs is excellent and FREE! I use it on my Xenix system and love it. It was no trouble at all to install. You can ftp it from prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38). Lawrence A. Hegarty lawrence@concour.cs.concordia.ca